Street-railway car.



A. NEWTON.

STREET RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.23, 1914.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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A. NEWTON.

STREET RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED mmzs. 1914.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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ARTHUR NEWTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STREET-RAILWAY CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Application filed March 23, 1914. Serial No. 826,787.

To all 207mm 1' i may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR NEWTON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of West Roxbury, Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Railway Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to enable the operator of a street railway car, who is called the motorman when the car is electrically impelled, to occupy such position when performing his usual functions, that he is able also to reach out into the space immediately above the usual fender or guard which projects from the front end of the car, and pull a person encountered by the fender or by the car to a safe position on the fender or the car, or push the person aside out of danger.

The invention is embodied in a street railway car having an operators station the platform or floor of which is depressed below the floor of the car and into such proximity to the track that the operator standing on said floor while performing his usual functions occupies a position enabling him to also perform the rescue work above indicated.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification; Figure 1 represents an end elevation of a street car embodying my invention; Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a portion of the car; Fig. 3 represents a top plan view of a portion of the car; Fig. 4 represents a longitudinal section of a part of a car showing a supplemental fioor or platform.

The same reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, 12 indicates the body of a street railway car which as here shown is provided with side entrances 13 near the ends of the car.

The general level of the floor of the car is indicated at 15 (Figs. 1 and 2), the floor being located above the running gear of the car as usual.

16 represents a fender which may be of any suitable construction and projects from the front end of the car.

In carrying out my invention I provide a depressed floor or platform 14 on which the operator or motorman stands when operating the car. Said platform supports the usual controller, the brake-operating device,

and other instrumentalities usually provided on a street car platform for the use of the operator in running the car. As shown by Figs. 1 and 2, the platform 14 is considerably below the level of the floor 15 and is located substantially flush with the fender and as close to the track as is possible without liability of contact with the track when the car body moves vertically. The position of the operator standing on the platform 14 is suchthat he is able, without leaving his post, to reach into the space immediately above the fender 16 and perform such rescue work as may be needed. In other words, the operator is able to rescue or help a person in danger of being injured by the car.

The space above the depressed platform 14 may be inclosed or not. As here shown, the depressed platform is thefloor of a small compartment having oblique sides 17, and a back or partition 18 separating the compartment from the interior of the car. The front of the compartment has an. opening sufli ciently large to permit the operator to project his body or the upper part of it into the space above the fender. I have here shown the front of the compartment formed by doors 19 hinged at 20 and adapted to be opened outwardly to permit the operator to perform rescue work. The compartment may have a displaceable front of any other suitable construction adapted to shield the operator and to be quickly displaced to permit the operator to act in the space in front of the compartment.

When the car has a transverse buffer extending across its end to sustain shocks incidental to collisions, such bufier being usually at about the same height as the floor 15, the depressed operators platform is below the buffer, as indicated by Figs. 1 and 2, where the buffer 21 is represented by dotted lines. The buffer thus located would extend across the front of the operators compartment above the floor 14 and the displaceable front formed by the doors 19 or otherwise will be entirely above the buffer. The height of the buffer above the depressed floor 14 is not suflicient to interfere materially with rescue work by the operator, who is enabled by the depressed platform to lean outwardly across the buffer.

A depressed platform 14 will usually be provided at each end of the car, and the space or inclosure above it will preferably communicate with the interior of the car by suitable dohrs, which may form the partitieh 18 above described. To enable the ssh; closure to be utilized at the rear ehil of the car, a supplemental platform 23 (Fig. &) may be removably supported above thesepressed platform 14; and flush Withthe flBBi 15 said supplemental platform bihg transferable, if desired, from one end of the ear to the other, and used only at the rear end. When the doors at 18 are o ehed; the slippl'emehtal latform 23 'eohstitutes extension of the floor 15 oh whih the chhdhethr and passengers may stahcl. The supple mental platfenh may he supported by cleats 24 attached at suitable points to the car above the depressed platform l4;

The spate exteri'din'g from the wardly at the front of 'a mo viiig" ear is what I call the danger space, because a person iii this space is exposed to .greatdahgeh The platform 14 is depressed sofar below the floor of the ear and i-hte such proximity to the track that the motor-man can 'reaeh practically all parts of this spate 'vvithciii't leavin his post. 7 o H Havmgdescribed inveiitioii, I claim:

1. A street car having an operators platform depressed below the level of the floiir of the car and in "such proximity to the track as to enable the operator to perform rescue work in the danger space at the from or the car without leaving his post.

2; street car having an eiid e hipare ment for the operator, having a floor depressed below the level of the floor of the Games bf this pat ent may he oht'aind for" eaf hd in such proximity to the that]: as to eiiable the operator to perform rescue work iii the dahger spate at the front of the car ithout leaving his post, and a front openiiig aheriiihg direct access to said space.

} 3;, A street car having a forwardly projeetiiigfeilder and an operators platform depressed below the level of the floor of the car and practically flush With the fender, whereby the operator or motorman is enahljed to "perform r seqe W rk at the front end of the car withhutlehvihg his post. 7

4; A "street cai' having a forwardly projeetihg" ffzl'ei iid bi'ripiiithifit for tha per ter, said temperament having a hhhr depressed below the fiher hi the car and practically flushwith the feed r and a froiitopeiiifig affording aceess hy the "operh'tor to the space ihhhediately above the iisuhl location of a fender the from end ofjthe car witheut leaving his post.

5. A street car having an end compart- 'jfor the operator, said compartment hhvih a platform depressed below the floor of the ear, and a supplemehtal platform rei hovahly supported above the depressed plat form and suhstahtially flush with the floor w In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in "presehee ef the withes'ses.

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